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Four Forecast Perspectives on Reworking Health

In recent years, traditional health care players have begun expanding their reach outside of health care settings and into our homes and workplaces, while new players have ventured into health domains. As this process accelerates over the next decade, it will reshape the roles of patients, consumers, providers, and caregivers, and create the conditions from which new authorities and ways to engage people in making decisions will emerge.

As part of this work, we created a set of four forecast perspectives with companion Artifacts from the Future that depict how four critical skills—measurement, empathy, cooperation, and design—will be applied by traditional and emerging stakeholders to improve health and well-being over the next decade. From black market services to mitigate the effects of personal indulgences to microwork services for mental health, the artifacts depict the broad range of ways that health management will happen over the next decade.